1197

Retaking of Beirut: detail

Alexandre Hesse

1201

"Boniface II, marquis of Montferrat, proclaimed leader of the 4th Crusade in the cathedral of Notre-Dame at Soissons, in the presence of the clergy and the people, 1201"

Henri Decaisne

1201

"Treaty concluded in the church of Saint Mark in Venice between a deputation of six crusaders, led by Geoffroy de Villehardouin, Seigneur de Chamlpagne, and Doge Enrico Dandolo, furnishing 50 galleys for the crossing to the Holy Land, 1201"

Charles Renoux

1204: April 12

"Taking of Constantinople by the crusaders, 12 avril 1204: entry into the city of Baldwin IX, count of Flanders, commanding the Crusaders, and Doge Enrico Dandolo at the head of the Venitians"

Eugène Delacroix; copy by Charles-Henri de Serres

1204: April 14

"Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders, 14 April 1204"

Eugène Delacroix

1204: May 16

"Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, crowned Latin Emperor of the East at Constantinople under the style Baldwin I, after the ouster of Alexios V Doukas by the Franco-Venetian crusader army, 16 May 1204"

Louis Gallait

1204: May 16

Baldwin IX crowned Emperor [detail]

Louis Gallait

1204: May 16

Baldwin IX crowned Emperor [detail]

Louis Gallait

1204: May 16

Baldwin IX crowned Emperor [detail]

Louis Gallait

1212

"Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212"

Horace Vernet

1218

"Andrew II 'of Jerusalem', King of Hungary, leading a crusade in the Holy Land, joins the Order of Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem, and receives, at Acre, the garb of a Hospitaller knight from the hands of Grand Master Guérin de Montaigu, 1218"

Gillot Saint-Evre

1219

"Taking of Damietta by the crusaders commanded by John of Brienne, after a siege of eighteen months, 1219: the crusaders entering the city by force"

Henri Delaborde

1219

"Taking of Damietta by the crusaders commanded by John of Brienne, after a siege of eighteen months, 1219: Cardinal Pelagius, legate of Pope Honorius III, who commanded the assault, intones a canticle of victory"

Henri Delaborde

1248

"Saint Louis (Louis IX), King of France from 1226 (lived 1214-1270): equestrian portrait at the time of his embarkment for Egypt"

Emile Signol

1249: June 4

"Disembarkment of Saint Louis at Damietta in Egypt, 4 June 1249"

Georges Rouget

1249: June

"Saint Louis recieves Robert, Patriarch of Jerusalem, at Damietta, come to participate in the siege of the city by the crusader army, June 1249"

Oscar Gué

1248

"Jean, sire de Joinville, seneschal of Champagne, chronicler (1225-1317)"

Merry Joseph Blondel

1250

"Gaucher de Châtillon defends, alone, the entry of a street in the city of Minieh in upper Egypt, to assure the safety of the king Saint Louis, 1250"

Karl Girardet